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UNITED STATES – Michael Jackson’s Neverland finally sold
It’s a done deal! Eleven years after the disappearance of the king of pop, his great property the Neverland ranche located in Los Olivos, California, was sold to a businessman from Montana: Ron Burkle. The latter was a time business adviser to Michael Jackson acquired this property for a reduced sum.
American Montana billionaire Ron Burkle now owns Michael Jackson’s extensive ranch in Neverland, California. The new buyer has taken out approximately $22 million, which is below the original selling price. The announcement was made on Thursday, December 24, 2020 by its spokesperson. Ron Burkle has investments ranging from supermarkets to the music industry. This latest acquisition is a “real estate banking opportunity” according to his spokesperson.
As a reminder, and according to the press, Michael Jackson would have acquired this property for $19.5 million in the 1980s. The initial selling price of the ranche was $100 million, an estimate dating back to 2015. However, by 2019, the price had already dropped to $31 million without ever finding a buyer.
The ranch is located on 1,100 hectares of land 65 km from Santa Barbara. The huge and spectacular property has a main house with six bedrooms, three guest houses, a lake with a waterfall, tennis courts, several barns and animal shelters.
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CAMEROON – Wedding of Charlotte Dipanda with Fernand Lopez
A lively controversy on the web the day after the celebration of their union. The Cameroonian singer is in the subjects of discussion the day after her civil marriage with Fernand Lopez celebrated Saturday, April 15, 2023. Charlotte Dipanda is being called a hypocrite because of an old interview that just surfaced.
The wedding of the famous Cameroonian singer, Charlotte Dipanda, with Fernand Lopez, her long-time companion, has made the headlines on social networks since this weekend. But this celebration was not well received by everyone, as some Internet users pulled out an interview with the star in which she said she was not interested in marriage.
Indeed, the 37-year-old singer gave an interview a few months ago, in which she criticized marriage by stating that all married couples she knew were unhappy. She also stated that marriage was not an end in itself or a goal to be achieved. I, all married people I know, are unhappy. Just to tell you that for me, marriage, as you define it, is not an end in itself, it is not a goal or something that prevents me from sleeping at night. I think I may even be on the right track. Because sometimes, when it is done, we realize that we no longer give ourselves as before or fight in the same way. I like the idea that my man is afraid of losing me, that he doesn’t take me for granted,” she said in an interview with an Ivorian media outlet in August 2022.
Charlotte Dipanda caught up in her past?
Very quickly, these statements provoked strong reactions from some Internet users, who called the singer a hypocrite. They objected to her criticizing marriage in public, when she clearly intended to marry. It is unacceptable for them to criticize something publicly and then celebrate it in private.
Here are people who misunderstood marriage during the day, on television sets, in the newspapers through interviews and who, at night, prepare to celebrate it, You shouted strong woman. I don’t need a husband to thrive. Today you are Mrs Lopez, the girls who looked at you as a model who are not star enough suitors like you and you had not thought of them. I am not against your happiness but avoid conveying messages that are not wise», we can read among other things in the comments.
These comments have sparked heated debates on social networks, with some Internet users defending Charlotte Dipanda, stressing that a person’s opinions and choices can change over time. Others took the singer’s side by saying that she had the right to change her mind and make the decision to marry.
Anyway, Charlotte Dipanda finally took the plunge and officially married Fernand Lopez last weekend. The singer officially became the wife of Fernand Lopez Owonyebe, a veteran of mixed Cameroonian-French martial art and current MMA coach. The couple did civil marriage this Saturday, April 15, 2023 about five months after the traditional marriage.
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SENEGAL – Pikine Saliou Bèye’s child found his half in the name of Bineta Lô
Saliou Béye is a native of Pikine, the conscious suburb, for years he lives in the United States precisely in Chicago where he is an entrepreneur.
They said “YES” to him and his cousin Bineta Lo. The wedding was celebrated last week in Thiés, Senegal, during her holiday in the presence of two families, friends, neighbours and colleagues. The entire editorial staff of Ze-Africanews through its director wishes him a happy marriage and much happiness to the young couple.
Some images of the marriage of Saliou Béye and Binta Lô:
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MUSIC-IN – Stunning photos of Ngaala Blindé !
“He’s a real product of the ghetto “Guediawaye to New York”, “This is a real product of the ghetto “Guediawaye to New York”, here is the sentence that Ngaala Blindé wrote on her Facebook page with amazing photos!
But who is Ngaala Blindé?
Ngaaka Blinde, whose real name is Baba Ndiaye, is a young Senegalese rapper born in 1994 in Medina Gounass (Guédiawaye) working-class district of Dakarois. Raised by his grandfather, he grew up with his three brothers and younger sister. Its stage name refers to the words “Ngaaka” (Marine species and/or ignorant) and “Blinde” as the word indicates. Passionate about Hip Hop from a young age, he began writing his first texts at the age of 9 under the influence of his master Mr NIANG of the Pikine 16 school in Guédiawaye Sham. He began his career by joining the rap group Young Star. He was selected in the same year in the TV show «Hip Hop Feeling» of Fata, participated in the second edition of «Hip Hop Discover» initiated by Simon Jolof4life and in the caravan tour of the group Bat’HaillonsBlin-Den 2012. The accumulation of all these experiences allowed the young Ngaaka to become the winner of the first edition of Flow UP (2013), a rap contest organized by the Africulturban Association in order to promote young rappers in expansion.
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